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Smiling man with an Anthropic AI badge slides an Advice book across a graffitied table to a tired developer reaching for it.

anthropic's thariq says use html in claude code - at 15x cost

Nick Trenkler 9 May 2026 1 min read

Two figures plant US and Chinese flags atop a graffitied server in a corridor of glowing data center racks under purple light.

china's ai labs scale fast as us holds frontier model lead

Nick Trenkler 9 May 2026 1 min read

Hooded figure in a Zyphra sweatshirt holds a glowing chip aloft beside benchmark papers and sparking, half-broken servers.

zyphra's zaya1-8b beats models 15x its size on math

Addy Crezee 7 May 2026 2 min read

Two suited men sit across a contract on a dim wooden table under a hanging lamp in a graffitied underground meeting room.

anthropic leases musk's colossus 1 supercomputer for claude

Nick Trenkler 6 May 2026 2 min read

Tim Cook eats from a Google Gemini bowl as a DeepMind chef serves more — Apple leans on rivals while R&D jumps.

apple r&d up 34%, beating google and meta: what's cooking

Nick Trenkler 6 May 2026 1 min read

Military officer and a man in glasses sit across a $45B contract on a circuit-patterned table under a single hanging lamp.

DeepSeek nears $45B as China's Big Fund joins AI stack

Addy Crezee 6 May 2026 1 min read

Lab-coated figure hammers a nail into a coffin marked Solved as walls of 0% scores glow behind under a swinging spotlight.

ProgramBench: top AI models score near 0% rebuilding code

Nick Trenkler 5 May 2026 2 min read

Investigator in gloves signs a blood-streaked contract beside damaged servers and tags reading Outage, Deleted, Sev1, Breach.

Klaimee launches first AI agent insurance after 2026 disasters

Nick Trenkler 5 May 2026 2 min read

Man in graffitied basement places glowing AI chips into trays — YC Spring 2026 batch tilts AI and agentic.

82% ai, 42% agentic: inside ycombinator’s spring 2026 batch

Nick Trenkler 4 May 2026 2 min read

Two men in purple and red overalls clash fists in front of a tangled, sparking server marked Enterprise in a graffitied hall.

openai raises $4B, anthropic $1.5B for enterprise rollout

Addy Crezee 4 May 2026 1 min read

Armored woman signs a glowing Commission Only contract on a desk piled with rejected resumes beside a Hermes caduceus staff.

first hermes ai agent job opens at thinksmart, 27 more listed

Addy Crezee 3 May 2026 1 min read

Trench-coated man faces "AI UNIT 109" reflection across glowing server racks — securing autonomous agents at runtime.

top 5 startups racing to secure agentic ai before it's too late

Nick Trenkler 2 May 2026 4 min read

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